“Debris” has been canceled after one season at NBC, Variety has learned. The news comes shortly after the first season finale, which aired on May 24.
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“Debris” has been canceled after one season at NBC, Variety has learned. The news comes shortly after the first season finale, which aired on May 24.
Just found your comment, and I agree completely. As I understand it, the only reason ST-TOS had as long a run as it did was because Lucille Ball (Desilu Studios) personally used her substantial power to keep it alive.
And just last week NBC (again) premiered 'La Brea', which may only be a limited run / mini-series - don't know yet. The pilot episode was pretty good, but I have a wide set of parameters for ANY SciFi show these days.
Wanna make a bet there is no season two?
This goes back a ways. In the 60's as many recollections by Gene R., William S. Leonard N. and many others. It seemed like, despite great timeslot ratings, someone "High Up" just wanted Star trek DEAD! So they kept pre empting for ridiculous reasons then started playing musical chairs with the time slots they kept shifting Star Trek around to. Then they just outright cancelled it. So a decade later Paramount buys the rights for a song noting it "did well in syndication". So they resurrected it to give it a shot. STNG, Deep Space 9, Voyager, Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery, Picard and a vigorous movie franchise churning out movies for decades now and cartoons and books and swag and conventions and well over a Billion Dollars later someone would think maybe NBC made a mistake?
Instead of being shown the door I think they kept the Exec that cancelled TOS and he is still sitting in some non descript NBC office cancelling great shows to this day...
One of my new fav shows and another NBC poor judgement. ALWAYS remember. NBC hated Star Trek and actively tried to sink it the 3 seasons it was on. I would NOT want to be "the guy that cancelled Star Trek". NBC and sci fi don't mix. The word was back then many top NBC execs would see Trek episode and just say... What does it even mean? Back then they "tried to write to a 3rd grade level" on primetime shows. Now we know why. The execs themselves were likely HS dropouts and proud of it. Must have "set a tone" to this day.
The quality of the writing and acting was suspect for sure, did not like the hysterical aspect to the female co-star
Agree, same here. Except I just waited a day and watched it for free on their website.
I have not had TV in years. I watch delayed on CBS, ABC, NBC, CW. They delay a day (or abc a week) and usually keep the last 5 episodes available. Works for me.
The writing left something to be desired, all the new agey touchy feely pseudo-religious nonsense, but I watched it anyway since decent sci fi shows are so rare. Oh, well, one more reason to cancel NBC.
When I see NBC I don't watch the first season until I know there will be a second. I'll just delete Debris like I have done with the rest of their cancels. ABC seems to have the same problem.
NBC is known for that. They cancelled Las Vegas in Season 5 and never showed the final 4 episodes and left thousands of people angry. The last episode that showed left you hanging. One of the main characters was about to miscarriage and we never found out what happened.
I can't understand why so many good shows get cancelled these days.
This aggravates me much, but is anybody really surprised? NBC has pretty much the worst record for cerebral sci-fi. I really liked 'The Event' also.